Disaster Recovery

If you want to back up or restore your Directory Server for disaster
recovery purposes, use the following procedures.

To Make a Backup for Disaster Recovery

For parts of this procedure, you can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help. Other parts of the procedure can only be done using the command line.

Make a backup of your database files by using the command dsadm
backup or dsconf backup.

Use the
procedure in Binary Backup, and store the
backup files in a safe place.

Copy the configuration directory instance-path/config to a safe place.

Copy the schema directory instance-path/config/schema to a safe place.

Copy the alias directory instance-path/alias to a safe place.

To Restore for Disaster Recovery

For parts of this procedure, you can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help. Other parts of the procedure can only be done using the command line.

Make sure you recover the system on the same hardware configuration.
For example, the Solaris SPARC recovery mechanism should be used to restore Directory Server on
Solaris SPARC.

Install the same version of Directory Server that you had previously
on the host.